Craigslist ad:
Research/Writing Partner (city omitted)
Freelance writer seeks research partner for article on "Planned Kidnapping" a new fad that's moved from New York to Los Angeles. The article is for a relationships/love tips-type online magazine, and I'm looking for a partner that will help me research and field-test this new fad. It will be a fun, unique and interesting case-study!!!!
When the article is published, we'll split the money evenly.
Please send pictures and resume if interested.
•it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
•Compensation: no pay
I suppose this could have been written by an incredibly naive person who thinks he/she has a great idea, although if that's true, he/she just gave it away. I don't read into this that the writer is on assignment, do you?
But the less benevolent side of me suspects there is no magazine and no story, only someone seeking an incredibly naive partner or two who can be urged into playing kidnap games, with all that that entails.
"Please send pictures and resume if interested." As Mr. T says, "I pity the fool."
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